{"id":8796,"date":"2015-08-19T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-celebrates-its-history-with-events\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T21:26:10","slug":"kent-celebrates-its-history-with-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-celebrates-its-history-with-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent celebrates its history with events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent celebrated its past with tours, open houses, a car show and other attractions throughout the city this past weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It was all part of Experience Historical Kent Day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Visitors and residents were invited to celebrate Kent&#8217;s past at multiple events.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The public was invited to Greater Kent Historical Museum and Mill Creek Neighborhood Historic Home and Garden Walking Tours. The Neely-Soames Historic Homestead hosted its annual open house, and historic downtown walking tours were offered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum offered special free admission. Bowen Scarff hosted its 28th annual Classic Ford Show and Mustang Roundup.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The\u00a0Soos Creek Botanical Garden and Heritage Center celebrated Kent&#8217;s 125th anniversary with historical displays, music and an art walk.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent celebrated its past with tours, open houses, a car show and other attractions throughout the city this past weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":8797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}